Captains · Gameweek 3
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Haaland is the gameweek 3 captain

17.16 captain EV, 19.33 ceiling — the best armband in the model.

eBy the evmax model · 3 September 2026

Haaland (MCI) projects 17.16 captained, off 8.58 expected points, with a ceiling of 19.33 — the average of his best 15% of simulations.

Haaland17.16 → 38.66B.Fernandes15.88 → 34.82Szoboszlai13.32 → 33.56Gakpo11.20 → 30.62Saka10.90 → 32.00Thiago10.52 → 28.56Gibbs-White10.18 → 28.24Enzo9.89 → 27.18Tavernier9.06 → 27.10Mbeumo8.90 → 26.04solid = captain EV · faint = ceiling upside (captained)
Top 10 by Captain EV. Green = top pick · red = under 10% owned. Full list in the table below. Solid bar = Captain EV, faint bar = ceiling. Ceiling = the average of a player's best 15% of our 50,000 simulations — the score when his best realistic games happen, not a fantasy cap.

B.Fernandes is the alternative at 15.88. He kicks off later, so he works as a vice only if your captain's match is already done.

The data

#PlayerCaptain EVxPtsCeilingPriceOwned %
1Haaland MCI17.168.5819.3315.571.0%
2B.Fernandes MUN15.887.9417.4112.048.6%
3Szoboszlai LIV13.326.6616.787.041.4%
4Gakpo LIVDifferential11.205.6015.317.08.1%
5Saka ARS10.905.4516.009.510.6%
6Thiago BRE10.525.2614.288.014.4%
7Gibbs-White NFODifferential10.185.0914.127.99.4%
8Enzo MCIDifferential9.894.9413.596.93.4%
9Tavernier BOUDifferential9.064.5313.556.02.3%
10Mbeumo MUN8.904.4513.028.029.6%
11Guéhi MCI8.814.4110.986.018.9%
12Virgil LIV8.794.3910.656.517.9%
13O'Reilly MCI8.344.1711.366.519.1%
14M.Sangaré BRE8.294.1410.555.713.4%
15Scott BOUDifferential8.274.1410.656.01.9%
16Garner EVEDifferential8.274.149.356.00.1%
17Semenyo MCI8.264.1311.538.520.6%
18Cherki MCI8.164.0813.337.726.1%
19Thiaw NEWDifferential7.973.9811.535.02.0%
20Yeremy CRYDifferential7.943.9712.685.50.2%

Bottom line

Captain Haaland — 17.16 is the highest doubled projection on the board.

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How we get these numbers. Market odds (de-vigged) → Dixon-Coles scorelines → 50k Monte-Carlo simulations, scored on the official Fantasy Premier League points table. Ceiling = the average of a player's best 15% of our 50,000 simulations — the score when his best realistic games happen, not a fantasy cap. Every figure here is machine-readable at /api/fpl/gw3/captains.json.